The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-02-09

Wednesday in January, as an advisory
body to the GenerarAssembly.
BY LAWS.
l. At the opening ofeach annual SEES
sion the President shall deliver an adj
dress relating to the interest of the
Association.
2. Immediately after his address the
President shall appoint a committee on
credentials consisting of five whose duty
it shall be to proceed to enroll those
who may be entitled to membership, by
presenting to each, the following for his
signature:
| hereby certify that l am a practical
farmer and that my chief interest is
farming or stock raising:
NaIne.
Post office. ..County..........".
3. Each member shall be required to
pay at the time of the enrolment of his
name, the sum of twenty-five cents as an
annual membership fee.
4. The names enrolled shall be re-
corded and announced by the Secretary,
and these alone shall be entitled to vote
on any question coming before the Asso-
citation.
5. The President shall appoint stand
ing committees of five each, on the fol-
lowing SUBJECTS: Homestead, mortage
and lien laws Commercial Fertilizers;
Composing and Home made manures
State Department of Agriculture Indus
trial Education; Public Roads; lmmi-
grafton Rotation of crops and Drain
age, Grasses, Stock and Stock laws: Mis-
cellaneous subjects.
6. TO these committees respectively
shall be referred all resolutions and
papers, read before the Association and
without debate.
7. A Committee of Finance consist
ing of three members shall be appointed
by the President at each meeting whose
duty it shall be to examine the books OF
the Treasurer and audit his account and
report to the Association.
8. All resolutions, petitions, memo
rails &C., shall be in writing and signed
by the persons presenting them.
9. Twenty members shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction Of business.
10. Farmers township clubs, county
clubs and oranges, shall be entitled to
send one or more delegates to the regu-
Mar annual meetings.
IL. This Constitution and By Laws
may be amended at the regular annual
meeting by a two-third vote of the mem
bers present.
n DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.
' First. For relief from present distress,
we must rely under the blessing of God
mainly upon ourselves. We must be
more industrious, more economical, live
more within our means, and provide a
better education for the masses of the
people.
Second. The interests of the farmer
and of the laborer are identical, what
ever benefits the one will benefit the
other. The farmers are laborers and
we make common cause with all laborers
everywhere in securing for them and
ourselves a just recompense for labor,
and the equal right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
Third. The land holder should own
his land exclusively, save only the right
of the public to pass over it on roads, and
up of having all land common property
for purposes of grazing and stock raising
is exceedingly injurious and often ruin
Gus to the farmer. Separate property in
land is the foundation of industry, econ
omy and thrift.
Fourth. The cash system is the best.
L dy ao you Ros ANOio Tx rSAAdtCC1 11lOIC-
gage. 1t is a device by which the farm
er is compelled to purchase at inflated
prices and pay with sound currency.
Fifth. Avoid litigation and as far as
may be live peaceably with all men.
Sixth. Cultivate less land. Improve
the land by drainage and a rotation of
crops. Make on the farm more grain
and grasses and feed them to improved
stock, and make less cotton and tobacco.
Seventh. System is a law of God, to
secure it we must have co-opertion, and
organization. We most earnestly com
mend to our brother farmers throughout
the State to organize, whether it be
through the Grange. or Farmers Clubs),
in every township and county, and dis
cuss improved methods in all that relates
to farm husbandry, and report through
the columns of the PROGRESSIVE FARM
Err, the organ of the Association.
On motion the report was adopt
ed.
The following was offered as a sub
stitute for the report of the Com
mittee on Public Roads and was
adopted.
Resolued. That it is the sense of this
Convention that convict labor should be
employed on the public roads of this
State.
ResoIued, That it is the sense of this
Convention that convict labor should not
be employed for the benefit of moneyed
corporations, and especially do we con
denim the policy of giving it to such cor